Essay On African Americans And Social Unity

At what point in history did Africans make the conscious decision to create a space where they can express intellectual and social unity? The African diaspora is the foundation of such unification. Although this paper will not discuss whether black people were or were not connected before the dispersal of black bodies from the African continent, it will showcase the different ways in which African Americans express their cultural unity and identity. The pinnacle of African social unity in America spawned from racial segregation, discrimination, and inequality; creating the Civil Rights Movement. Today, a re-emergence of African social unity has formed due to police brutality, negative images of blacks in the media, and the desire to reclaim African roots. With all this being said, African-American unity has and still is being formed around oppression. This new age formation of black unity has occurred via social media. Just as the Civil Rights Movement produced many black political and social organizations, social media is allowing African Americans to create their own spaces where they can unify and express their own agendas. Similar to the multitude of black political organizations in the 60s, I found …show more content…
The Ankhs and Hoteps created a consciousness that is reminiscent of the Afrocentric paradigm in the sense that it attempts to eliminate European ideals of beauty, spirituality, humanity, and social structures by re-centering themselves with ancient African ideals. This form of consciousness is devoted to the idea that in order to form black unity one must be aware of his or her African roots and the foundation of all African civilization. This consciousness is centered around the idea that Egypt is that foundation of African civilization and that African identity is meant to model after the Ancient Egyptian